Soraya Roberts

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Public intellectuals have their own version of the American Dream, where one person, on their own, can achieve anything — including being the smartest person in the room.

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Why aren’t any of the new erotic thrillers as good as the classics of the 80s and 90s?

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Celebrities act as symbols of capitalism. When we question it, we question them.

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I figured out why the fashion industry keeps fucking up.

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If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?

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When did pop culture become homework? 

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Journalism is still romanticized even though being a journalist is a complete shit show right now.

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On women’s thirst and the men who are terrified of not quenching it.

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The only answer to a winners-take-all is a world in which winners take less, and that’s a tough message for your winner.

I wrote about eating the rich, or, well, getting them to eat themselves.

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Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.

I coined a new word.

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The new makeover scene is internal and it sucks just as much as the last one.

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Wrote about how all these guys are basically the same person.

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Dylan McKay’s — I mean, Luke Perry’s — death reminds us that the teen idol was once very much alive.

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Helen Childress was only 20 when she wrote the classic Gen-X film Reality Bites. So why has she spent the rest of her almost three-decade career writing scripts that don’t get made?

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This is the new old Hollywood. Where Jack Nicholson was well-ensconced, now the seats of note are no longer occupied solely by the old white men who once claimed all the accolades for building the industry.

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Instead of seeing yourself as an isolated individual and intervening as a way of potentially compromising yourself, you must see yourself as what you really are — a member of society, in which intervening is a way of saving not just on person, but all of us.

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Pop culture never minded showing boys jerking off, but girls were never allowed the same outlet. That’s finally changing with the influx of female storytellers.